As Britain's most successful and high profile make-up artist, for the past 15 years Gary Cockerill has glossed the lips, curled the lashes and shared the secrets of the famous and fabulous.

Many try to find a belief system or a form of spirituality to help them discover a higher meaning in life. Although they may search valiantly, it can be a confusing and frustrating journey. In "Stardust: The Traveller's Way, "a guide to personal and spiritual development, author Yildiz Sethi covers a variety of elements and perspectives that help to form a set of ways to live in the present world. She explains the ancient Indian belief systems surrounding the soul from its first incarnation into the physical world through its journey toward enlightenment through a character named Surya. Through Surya, one can experience challenges and dilemmas, as well as the choices that are available. Yildiz also discusses the concept of karma from a Vedic astrology perspective, including predestiny and free will. This study uses ancient and modern philosophies and Eastern and Western knowledge in looking through Surya's eyes. Each decision has consequences, and Yildiz discusses those with a strong emphasis on intricacies of relationships. You can explore reincarnation, karma, and personal development through Vedic astrology, eastern philosophy, and psychology for the mind, body, and soul with Family Constellations.

How did life originate on Earth? For over 50 years, scientists believed that life was the result of a chemical reaction involving simple molecules such as methane and ammonia cooking in a primordial soup. Recent space observations have revealed that old stars are capable of making very complex organic compounds. At some point in their evolution, stars eject those organics and spread them all over the Milky Way galaxy. There is evidence that these organic dust particles actually reached the early Solar System. Through bombardments by comets and asteroids, the young Earth inherited significant amounts of stardust. Was the development of life assisted by the arrival of these extraterrestrial materials? In this book, the author describes stunning discoveries in astronomy and solar system science made over the last 10 years that have yielded a new perspective on the origin of life. Other interesting topics discussed in this book The discovery of diamonds and other gemstones in space The origin of oil Neon signs and fluorescent lights in space Smoke from the stars Stardust in our hands Where oceans come from The possibility of bacteria in space

As an Eastern Kentucky native from a small coal mining town, Emily's life has become a fairy tale. Her successful music career more than fulfills her ambitions for fame and fortune; however, her true happiness lies with her beloved husband Robert and their two children. When a horrible coal mining accident turns Emily's world upside down, she travels to Australia hoping to find a peace that can help heal her broken heart. There, Emily meets Colt, an outback cattle station owner. Sparks fly, and though several misunderstandings occur that portray Emily as a gold digger, Colt is maddeningly attracted to her. Can a new love rise from the ashes of Emily's grief and overcome numerous hurdles and misconceptions? Mixed emotions for a love that was, one that is, and the one that will last throughout eternity weave intricately through the pages of A New Season of Love. Tonia Hopson was born in Matewan, West Virginia in 1951, but grew up in Phelps, Pike County, Kentucky, where she still lives today.For ten years, Tonia was an elementary and middle school teacher, then became an elementary principal for eight years and has worked in the capacity of Pike County Schools' district instructional supervisor for the last six years. Tonia's previously published books include: Coal Dust to Stardust, Daisies to Roses, and Primitive Desires. All her novels are romantic fiction with a touch of action/adventure, capturing the positive qualities of the people of the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. http: //SBPRA.com/ToniaHopso

As Britain's most successful and high profile make-up artist, for the past 15 years Gary Cockerill has glossed the lips, curled the lashes and shared the secrets of the famous and fabulous. With his unique style of super-sexy, uber-glamorous make-up, Gary has been responsible for helping to launch the careers and keep the secrets of a host of famous names, including his best friend Katie Price. But behind the glitz and glamour is a heart-warming and at times hilarious story of how a former Yorkshire coal miner with no training or contacts fought his way up to become the celebrity world's make-up artist of choice. In From Coal Dust to Stardust, Gary reveals how a job spray-painting the faces of shop mannequins in a grimy West London factory led him to America and a hair-raising stint working with the superstars of the adult film industry. He explains how he landed his first celebrity client and within a few years was back in Los Angeles again, only this time working with true Hollywood movie legends. Today, with a star-studded client list that reads like a copy of Vanity Fair magazine, Gary has become a loyal friend and confidante to many of his regular clients. In his role at the heart of the celebrity circus, he reveals what it was like to have a ringside seat for some of the most notorious tabloid scandals of the Noughties. Running alongside Gary's rise to fame is his candid and moving account of coming to terms with his sexuality and meeting his first boyfriend - now husband, Phil Turner - while in the middle of planning a wedding to his glamour model fianc�e Tracey. He also lays bare his own struggles with shopping addiction, his dabbles with drugs and how his newfound celebrity lifestyle threatened to spiral out of control and destroy everything he had worked for. Gary's fairytale journey from the mines of Doncaster to the VIP rooms of London and LA is a moving and funny tale in the mould of Billy Elliot - if, that is, Billy ended up pole-dancing in a strip joint at the start of Act Two. Entertainingly gossipy but never bitchy or cruel, Coal Dust to Stardust will be a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary celebrity culture.

Hailed by The New York Times for writing “with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along,” nationally bestselling author Robert M. Hazen offers a radical new approach to Earth history in this intertwined tale of the planet’s living and nonliving spheres. With an astrobiologist’s imagination, a historian’s perspective, and a naturalist’s eye, Hazen calls upon twenty-first-century discoveries that have revolutionized geology and enabled scientists to envision Earth’s many iterations in vivid detail—from the mile-high lava tides of its infancy to the early organisms responsible for more than two-thirds of the mineral varieties beneath our feet. Lucid, controversial, and on the cutting edge of its field, The Story of Earth is popular science of the highest order. "A sweeping rip-roaring yarn of immense scope, from the birth of the elements in the stars to meditations on the future habitability of our world." -Science "A fascinating story." -Bill McKibben

From the author of The Farm, this is the story of twentieth century working-class England through four generations of a Yorkshire mining family

Emily Marie Taylor is a beautiful, flame-haired young woman bound for stardom and willing to work hard to get there. During the turbulent 1960s, country music was booming and Emily's talent, looks and fortitude take her on a fast ride to fame. But fame sometimes comes at a price and, for Emily, that price will be love lost, deception and finding her way back to who she once was before it all began. All Emily ever wanted was to make her mark in the country music world and find true love, but three men love her and she'll have to figure out just which one will be exactly what she needs in order to capture her dreams once and for all.

NOW A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER A love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney paints a portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America: from the Jazz Age to the onset of the AIDS epidemic; the Great Depression to the birth of hip-hop. “In my reckless and undiscouraged youth,” Lillian Boxfish writes, “I worked in a walnut-paneled office thirteen floors above West Thirty-Fifth Street...” She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. Macy’s to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. It was a job that, she says, “in some ways saved my life, and in other ways ruined it.” Now it’s the last night of 1984 and Lillian, 85 years old but just as sharp and savvy as ever, is on her way to a party. It’s chilly enough out for her mink coat and Manhattan is grittier now—her son keeps warning her about a subway vigilante on the prowl—but the quick-tongued poetess has never been one to scare easily. On a walk that takes her over 10 miles around the city, she meets bartenders, bodega clerks, security guards, criminals, children, parents, and parents-to-be, while reviewing a life of excitement and adversity, passion and heartbreak, illuminating all the ways New York has changed—and has not. Lillian figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young. “Transporting...witty, poignant and sparkling.” —People (People Picks Book of the Week)

Swing has never gone out of style. It was the music the Greatest Generation danced to--and went to war to. And no musician evokes the Big Band era more strikingly than Tommy Dorsey, whose soaring trombone play and hit tunes influenced popular music for a generation. Tommy Dorsey (1905-1956) led a rich and complex life. Beginning with his childhood in the coal mining towns of Pennsylvania, we follow the young trombonist's journey to fame and fortune during the Jazz Age. Tommy, with his brother Jimmy, created one of the most popular bands of the era and played with such giants as Bing Crosby and Glenn Miller. They also launched the career of a skinny young singer named Frank Sinatra. But Tommy's volcanic personality eventually split the band and Tommy went off on his own. Drawing on exhaustive new research and scores of interviews with the musicians who knew him best, Levinson delves into Dorsey's famously eccentric lifestyle and his oversize appetite for drink, women, and perfection. The first biography on Dorsey in more than thirty years, Tommy Dorsey is a dazzling portrait of the Big Band's brightest star--his tumultuous life, his turbulent times, and the unforgettable music that made him a legend.